Ty Korrigan

Question is, why would this very simple pump be affected by the heat of the engine?

Move over Monet, there's a new kid on the block. Seriously, luck with the soil plus dedication with watering and weeding. I sent a sample of soil off to a laboratory for analysis. It came back as high in everything but calcium which at 5.9 pH is expected. I'd home tested to 5.5 pH but thought lower still. The Blueberries are telling me the soil needs more acid in their area. 18m3 of water so far this season. The bounty of veg is regularly given to neighbours and the local food bank. I'm freezing as much as practicable but I'll require another freezer in a few weeks. Bit overwhelmed to be honest. Greenhouse is impassable, too small with too much planted. Carrots yet to come in, sweetcorn, yellow French beans, squash, parsnips, beet. Turnips look a bit rank having taken a hit from flea beetle. Onions are outrageous. Broadbeans very heavy crop. Mrs Lee makes a pease pudding with them. Only 3 cardoons a Moroccan favourite. Basically thistle stems for tagines. I like them young otherwise they are fiberous and bitter. I'll plant more artichokes for the good lady wife. Jerusalem artichokes growing like weeds. Raspberries, 9 so far but I expect an explosion of fruit in 2024. Marrows waste of space. Courgettes next year. Salads too much sown. Parsley and coriander, 4m linear of each harvested and it is regrowing fast. Coriander needs another cut this week. Leek-a-rama, both bought seedlings and sown from seed. Spuds, Charlotte and a violet variety which is sweet and tasty and gives well over a kilo per plant. I need to concentrate on learning how to preserve.

Honestly, it is good for my mental health to know I am not alone. You are talking about the high pressure fuel pump not the lift pump and if so how much was the fuel pump? Also, if you still have the old pump, I suggest cutting it open to look at the filter. Tell us what you see.

Any update on this Shaunpaul?

I often rented a Bugnot during the Vanguard Efi debacle. Got rather fond of it Flails are slow, no good on wood but the fixed hammers with carbide edges are pretty good. Drum arrangement and easy to work on. Single roller with toothed belt. It was loud and unbraked with a hand brake acting on the tyre.

Yes in France. Shredders are highly popular with landscapers. No-one burns except farmers and 'God' who has been particularly active...

I've a high Google rating locally. I live in a rented house and operate out of an attached garage with my other kit kept on a local farm. 75% of our work is within 15kms 20% 15kms-30kms and 5% second home owners mostly over 100kms I find the further away a client, the more likely it is they have already called several others closer and so are just fishing for the lowest price rather than the reputation and quality of service. One day I'll move out of town to a place we own some 25kms away but need to domicile the business in town first. Moving will add 50kms per day for the truck and an hour to the day not to mention quoting travel and time.

I've had my Aspen Bio chain oil chewed before.

The third time the engine had running problems, the chipper was away for 15+ months at the next closest Briggs Efi certified mechanic over 2 hours away. The first Efi guy an hour away was a sulky twunt with a permanent Gallic shrug. After a few months of renting and wee Chinesium chippering, I decided to blow my house deposit on a new diesel chipper rather than go into the Autumn without a reliable machine. The mechanic updated the ECU (but didn't change it) changed all the sensors, changed the fuel pump, disabled the bonnet sensor, emptied and cleaned the fuel tank, spark plugs, fuel filter then gave up and told me to either buy a new engine or take it back. I refused to accept the machine back because though the warranty was over it was still valid because the fault occurred within the warranty period. In the end I appealed to Mark at Basco? Briggs import and distribution in the UK. Mark sent a new engine to Europe though once in the hands of Briggs Europe took a few weeks to arrive in France then the mechanic Bruno took 3 months to install it. The chipper was left outside under a tarp for most if this time which caused the much vaunted powder coating to lift off in large flakes. It runs sweetly though I cannot justify keeping it as a second chipper. So it is off to auction in September. Auction because there is no comeback in the event of a major fault developing.

Have any dealers ever actually fixed this fairly common fault or do Vanguard owners just give up and go back to diesel?

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You all forgotten my Efi saga then? It started the same way... Stuart

I use Andrews Rozes wood for Summer. They don't have a waterproof membrane and sre noticeably cooler that the other Andrews I use for Winter. https://www.elagage-hevea.com/fr/chaussures-de-travail-rozes-wood-andrew.html

Post reported. Online harassment.

I sub my larger stump jobs out to a guy with one of these. Totally screwed up my first estimate. I thought a day and half. Took Stephan 4 hours. Wide deep sweep, expanding tracks and radio control. Cost him €75k ht, a cool grand for ever horse. Two years in I asked him about reliability. Nothing to report. Machines like this needs some networking behind it to feed them. I know my man is far from full time and often accepts quite small jobs just to meet his payments. Facebook M.FACEBOOK.COM

Bear Valley tops and a helmet with a neck cowl.

According to this sticker, it was last inspected in 2016...

Hello, We hired this in for a dead beech today. First time with a tracked machine. It is a 2016 model. It was a devil to get level then weirdly sluggish operating and capricious. At 3pm it burst a hose. To the credit of the hire firm they sent a hydraulic repair guy out and it was back working in an hour but we'd had enough of it's shenanigans so called it a day. It wasn't a great machine to operate with lots of movement and as the boom got higher, a pronounced lean. Is this a normal amount of play? VID_20230615_155552(0).mp4

At the heart of the dispute was the cutting of trees to make a childrens play area...

Here: France shooting: British schoolgirl, 11, shot dead while playing on a swing | Daily Mail Online WWW.GOOGLE.CO.UK Solenne Thornton was playing in her garden in the hamlet of Saint-Herbot, in Brittany, France, when a neighbour brandishing a...

I wonder how much they are in Slovakia...?

Seems to be a French tradition to plant Gladioli to mark rows of veg. I was sent some everytime I ordered seeds n shit. I go up to the place every couple of days to water, weed and to be. I find being there incredibly relaxing. I left at 11pm a few nights ago after getting there at 8pm after work. I've inadvertently entered into a conflict with my neighbour over cutting back his invading vegetation. I put in a root barrier on my side to stop his bamboo from encroaching and with his verbal permission cut back everything that crossed the boundary. I did rather go to town on the cutting back and this is what has angered the neighbour as it exposes an area of garden he uses for growing cannabis (last image)

Skinny urban birch removal. I used the dull side of the teeth to clear the area around the stump of surface roots before turning the lead teeth and demolishing the stump in 6min. Clay soil, almost moistureless and it is only May...

Looks like I'm going to run out of work just in time for my 2 month Summer break. Still no finance to burden our affairs thanks to my wife's short leash on my aspirations. I was recently invited to bid on a construction project site clearance, a drainage pipeline under the main Paris-Rennes TGV line. 4 days work for 3, submitted my bid, nothing heard back. Surprised I was asked to be honest as public works ain't really my bag. I don't rate highly credibility wise not having much in the way of larger machinery and relying in subbies. I recently started asking a few people I'd quoted for and got along with but didn't win, about the winning price etc. Had a few honest replies. The winning bids have been very lean in comparison to my own and I wouldn't consider matching let alone beating them. I utterly dislike working for turnover alone. The Moroccanese accountant says "this is just the beginning" The building industry is increasingly suffering in France. Mortgage rates are 3-4 times higher than 12 months ago, material prices still painfully high. In the news again, construction companies closing down, often having taken much of peoples house money up front and leaving a string of part completed houses that the owners cannot access to finish them off themselves. There is merde ahead... Stuart Stuart

Grinders certainly jump in price from pedestrian to self propelled... Stuart